[link|http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5913350|http://www.reuters.c...s&storyID=5913350]

Asked about the release of Khan's name, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said it was a hard line to draw between giving the public too much or too little information about terrorist threats.

"We did not, of course, publicly disclose his name," Rice said, adding that it had been given "on background." She did not say when or by whom the name was first revealed.

yes I know reuters is foreign but somewhat reliable

I dont beleive she is a Clintonian holdover, I rather like Justin's take, America the best Ally Al Quida can have. It certainly appears that way on the surface.
thanx,
bill